Jar-closure.



No. 674,713. Patented May 2|, |901. J. scHlEs.

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(Application led Feb. 13, 1901.]

(No Model.)

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A 77'0HNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN SCHIES, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA.

JAR- CLOSU RE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 674,713, dated May 21, 190] Application i'lled February 13, 1901. Serial No. 47,132. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN SCHIES, residing at Anderson, in the county of Madison and State of Indiana, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Jar Closures, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in closures of jars and the like, and has for an object to provide a jar-closure which will be secure and easily applied and removed; and the invention consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of the invention as in use, the parts being shown in sealed position. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the closure, the depending wing of the cap-securing ring being freer of engagement with the downwardly-facing shoulder of the bottle-neck. Fig. 3 is a similar section with the said wing pressed inte engagement with the shoulder. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the cap-securing ring.

The jar may be formed in any suitable design and has its neck A provided within its mouth and below its lip B with an upwardlyfacing shoulder C, while the outer side of the neck is provided below its lip with a downwardly-facing shoulder D, as best shown in Figs. 2 and 3. Within the neck I it a liningdisk E, which may be of cork, felt, glass, or other suitable material and which rests upon the shoulder O and lts snugly within the neck above the said shoulder. The disk E, when made of cork, felt, or other readily-compressible material, will in the sealed position of the parts, as shown in Fig. 3, be pressed up into the concave under side of the cap F. This cap F is provided on its under side with the depending portion F', which fits within the neck of the jar and bears upon the disk E above the shoulder O, the under side of the cap F within the area of the portion F being preferably dished or concave at F2, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The cap F is also porvided with a portion F3, which projects laterally beyond the portion F and overlies the lip B of the jar. In its upper side, at its edge, the cap F is provided with a groove or rabbet F4.

A gasket Gr is fitted between the lip of the jar and the projecting portion Fs of the cap F. This gasket also encircles the depending portion F of the cap andV fits within the depending wing H2 of the ring H. This ring H is shown in detail in Fig. 4 and comprises a horizontal top wing H', which fits within the rabbet F4 in the top of the cap, and the depending wing H2, which extends down alongside of and below the cap F and down alongside the jar-neck to a point below the shoulder D, as shown in Fig. 2. When the parts are adjusted, as shown in Fig. 2, to close the jar, it will be noticed the several parts are held securely in position, as the cap maintains the lining-disk in place and the gasket is held between the portion F of the cap and the wing H2 of the ring and between the lip .of the jar and the portion F3 of the cap. In the lower edge of the wing H2 are formed a numberlof ,V-shaped notches H3, which separate the lower,edge of the wing into a number of sections which are bent squarely beneath the shoulder D and in practice is rolled up tight against the said shoulder with small rollers, drawing the rin gdownward and causing it to press the cap firmly upon the gasket G andthe lining-disk, thus securing an airtight closure. The V-shaped notches may be increased in number to any desired extent,and the ring can be readily released by bending back the portions h, which'are bent beneath the shoulder D, as shown in Figs. l and 3.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A closure substantially as described, comprising a jar or the like having its neck provided within its mouth below its lip with an upwardly-facing shoulder, and having its neck provided below its lip with an exterior downwardly-facing shoulder, the liner-disk itted upon the interior upwardly facing shoulder, the cap rabbeted in its upper face at its edge, provided on its under side with a downwardly-projecting portion fitted to the bottle-neck and resting therein upon the lining-disk, and also having a laterally-projecting portion overlying the lip of the jar, the

gasket between said portion of the cap and,

lip of the jar, and the fastening-ring having a top wing tted in the top rabbet of the cap,

and the depending wing notched at intervals IOO in its free edge and having such edge between the notches bent inwardly beneath the exterior downwardly-facing shoulder of the neck substantially as set forth.

2. In a closure substantially as described the combination of the jar having its neck provided on its outer side with a downwardlyfacing shoulder, the cap fitting on said neck and the continuous unbroken cap-securing ring having at its upper edge an inwardlyprojecting iange overlying the outer edge of the cap and extending inwardly beyond the inner line of the external downwardly-facing shoulder, the body of the ring being fitted snugly around the neck of the jar and having at its lower edge portions bent beneath the shoulder of the jar-neck and arranged to be bent outward to release the closure substantially as set forth.

3. In a closure the combination of the jar having its neck provided with an external downwardly-facing shoulder, the cap resting at its outer edge upon the neck of the jar and coinciding at such edge with the outer surface of the jar-neck and provided in its upper face at its outer edge, in a line overlying the neck of the jar, with an annular groove or rabbet which extends inwardly beyond the inner line of the external downwardly-facing shoulder, and the cap-securingring having at its upper edge an inwardly-projecting flange extending above the neck of the jar and resting in the rabbet of the cap, and having its lower edge bent into locking engagement with the shoulder of the jar substantially as set forth.

JOHN SCHIES. Witnesses:

CHARLES FRANCIS SKEHAN, MARY Seems. 

